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Out of curiosity, I am wondering if anyone knows if this term has been used in any books, and where, because I haven't come across it. Usually those with psionics are called psychics right?

I'm also kinda wondering where the term 'psionics' itself comes from. It is based on 'bionics' ?

Psionicists....is a aquward word. Looks like they trying to be fancy and took the word psionic and just stuck an '-ist' on the end.

No, I do not know any place in the books that Psionicist(s) is used.

Googling it might work.
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Psions are people with psionic powers.
(says the same thing with different words)
Psychics are people with Psychic powers.
(and another way but with a tence change)
A Psion has psychic powers
(saying that again)
A Psychic has psionics.

If someone with psionic powers is a psion...

Is someone with bionic implants a bion?

Tor wrote:If someone with psionic powers is a psion...

Is someone with bionic implants a bion?

no, a borg...

that is like saying
if a person from london is a londonite,
Does that make a person from paris a parisite?

drewkitty ~..~ wrote:

Tor wrote:If someone with psionic powers is a psion...

Is someone with bionic implants a bion?

no, a borg...

that is like saying
if a person from london is a londonite,
Does that make a person from paris a parisite?

Based on my one and only trip to the City of Lights.. would be fairly accurate.

Damn lawless suffixes.

Phoenicians (Phoenix arizona)(yep like the ancient Mediterranean culture)
Nuw Yoorker ( New York NY)
Bostonian (Boston)
Parisian (paris france)

Those are the ones I can remember off the top of my head.

Well I just figured out where the term probably originates from...D&D

Considering we're Palladium...

Guild of Magic & Psionics wrote:Diabolists, Techno-Wizards & Psionicists, Oh my! All things that are Magics and Psionics in all Palladium Games.

Surely we should conform to Palladium terminology?

Tor wrote:Well I just figured out where the term probably originates from...D&D

Considering we're Palladium...

Guild of Magic & Psionics wrote:Diabolists, Techno-Wizards & Psionicists, Oh my! All things that are Magics and Psionics in all Palladium Games.

Surely we should conform to Palladium terminology?

Just like in PF is the only place a "Diabolist" isn't a demon/devil worshiper... What WAS Kevin thinking when he named that class? Bad guys only?

Let's just ignore that the way they activate their wards is by invoking demon/deevil lords, the great old ones, and use things like ground up bones and blood to set traps for the unwary.

Tor wrote:Let's just ignore that the way they activate their wards is by invoking demon/deevil lords, the great old ones, and use things like ground up bones and blood to set traps for the unwary.

And that they have to kill things like demons and dyvals to get some of their components, and that they also invoke angels and heros of light...

Goliath Strongarm wrote:they have to kill things like demons and dyvals to get some of their components

Doesn't exclude them from being evil

Goliath Strongarm wrote:they also invoke angels and heros of light...

Doesn't make them good

Considering that Xy himself, whatever facade he wears, summons these 'angels', forgive my suspicions about them.